--- title: Microsoft Visual Studio App Center Reviews meta_title: 'Microsoft Visual Studio App Center Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 61 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Microsoft Visual Studio App Center works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.1 review_count: 61 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-07-17' parent_category: name: Mobile Development url: https://www.g2.com/categories/mobile-development --- # Microsoft Visual Studio App Center Reviews **Vendor:** Microsoft **Category:** [Mobile Development Platforms](https://www.g2.com/categories/mobile-development-platforms) **Average Rating:** 4.1/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 61 ## About Microsoft Visual Studio App Center Visual Studio App Center ships iOS, Android, Windows, and macOS apps faster and with greater confidence by automating their lifecycles. It also connects your repository and, within minutes, builds in the cloud, tests on thousands of real devices, distributes to beta testers and app stores, and monitors real-world usage with crash and analytics data. ## Microsoft Visual Studio App Center Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users appreciate the **ease of use** of Visual Studio App Center, enabling effortless updates and automation in development. (2 reviews) - Users find **app development easy** with Microsoft Visual Studio App Center, facilitating seamless updates for their projects. (1 reviews) - Users appreciate the **configuration ease** of Microsoft Visual Studio App Center, allowing effortless updates to their mobile apps. (1 reviews) - Users value the **fast delivery speed** of Microsoft Visual Studio App Center, enhancing customer satisfaction with timely updates. (1 reviews) - Users appreciate the **simplicity of updates** in Microsoft Visual Studio App Center, enhancing their app development experience. (1 reviews) - Solution Efficiency (1 reviews) - Time Management (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users face **network connectivity issues** during updates, which can hinder their overall experience with the App Center. (1 reviews) - Users find Microsoft Visual Studio App Center **expensive** , suggesting a lower price could attract more users. (1 reviews) - Users struggle with **poor documentation** of governance and policies, leading to confusion and inefficiencies. (1 reviews) - Users mention **pricing issues** with Microsoft Visual Studio App Center, suggesting lower costs could increase user interest. (1 reviews) - Users report **network connectivity issues during updates** , which complicate the overall experience and functionality of the App Center. (1 reviews) ## Microsoft Visual Studio App Center Reviews ### 1. A New Tool for Monitoring Cross-Platform Mobile Apps **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 03, 2016 **What do you like best about Microsoft Visual Studio App Center?** I think it's amazing because it is important gathering details when your app crashes, understanding of how users are interacting with your app, the version of the operating system, and other critical system information like available memory and battery life and etc. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Visual Studio App Center?** Registering for an API Key from the Xamarin Insights Dashboard is a long process. **What problems is Microsoft Visual Studio App Center solving and how is that benefiting you?** If you have an app and your users are experiencing problems, you need to know, and fast. Even if they are not experiencing problems, you want to know how they are interacting with your app. We use Xamarin Insights for that purposes. ### 2. It is very good product **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rohit F. | Co-Founder & CTO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 19, 2016 **What do you like best about Microsoft Visual Studio App Center?** It gives better insights of my products so get more revenue out of it **What do you dislike about Microsoft Visual Studio App Center?** The kind of data centres are available for India **What problems is Microsoft Visual Studio App Center solving and how is that benefiting you?** I realized that how useful these kind of product to improve business ### 3. Good app for releasing beta versions to customers **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 14, 2016 **What do you like best about Microsoft Visual Studio App Center?** Sending the version releases via email, clear instructions with download and install. Would be great if there was an ability to send the installation link via text. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Visual Studio App Center?** Goes through too many steps to allow the Hockeyapp profile on phone. Should just have 1 notification user tap, and the profile is automatically authorized. **What problems is Microsoft Visual Studio App Center solving and how is that benefiting you?** download apps in beta mode ### 4. Goto Mobile App Deployment Platform **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anthony G. | Associate Game Engineer, Entertainment, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 02, 2016 **What do you like best about Microsoft Visual Studio App Center?** HockeyApp makes it really easy to quickly get your apps uploaded and distributed to your team. Supporting Android and iOS for both enterprise and non-enterprise apps is a major plus, as well as providing curl calls for automated uploads and distribution. Overall, HockeyApp wins due to its simplicity and ability to easily get your team up and running. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Visual Studio App Center?** HockeyApp's user management seems to be a bit unintuitive at times. **What problems is Microsoft Visual Studio App Center solving and how is that benefiting you?** HockeyApp allows us to distribute builds of our app in a fast and organized manner, providing a great interface for users that is clear and easy to understand. ### 5. Great to distribute apps to ad hoc users, but has some minor issues **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 28, 2016 **What do you like best about Microsoft Visual Studio App Center?** Ease of use, simple Api can integrate easily with 3rd party services. Has a lot of organisation options when the app is uploaded. Team profiles to limit people to certain apps **What do you dislike about Microsoft Visual Studio App Center?** It's difficult to notify team when an app is upload would be good if this could be done from 3rd party services. **Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Visual Studio App Center:** Create organisations for each client as there is an app limit per organisation. **What problems is Microsoft Visual Studio App Center solving and how is that benefiting you?** Can easily send app version to clients that want to test the mobile app before making it public. ### 6. Great Mobile Testing Product **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 27, 2016 **What do you like best about Microsoft Visual Studio App Center?** HockeyApp makes testing our suite of apps super easy on both iOS and Android **What do you dislike about Microsoft Visual Studio App Center?** Nothing! It's a super useful tool, nothing bad to say about it **What problems is Microsoft Visual Studio App Center solving and how is that benefiting you?** Testing our mobile apps using only one software tool. HockeyApp is the best solution because it works on both iOS and Android devices ### 7. Good but can be better if old builds are easily accessible on the site **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 25, 2016 **What do you like best about Microsoft Visual Studio App Center?** Clear interface. Easy to obtain and install. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Visual Studio App Center?** Can't see older builds past a certain number for Android. Cannot see older builds at all for iOS **What problems is Microsoft Visual Studio App Center solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ease for QA to obtain builds quickly. Email notification. ### 8. Great for testing both platforms **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Paul L. | Founder, Music, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 01, 2016 **What do you like best about Microsoft Visual Studio App Center?** I've used HockeyApp for several projects - especially where we needed to manage overlapping teams for iOS and Android **What do you dislike about Microsoft Visual Studio App Center?** Not much to dislike about HockeyApp. It works **What problems is Microsoft Visual Studio App Center solving and how is that benefiting you?** Test user and device management ### 9. HockeyApp saved me tons of debug cycles **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 13, 2016 **What do you like best about Microsoft Visual Studio App Center?** HockeyApp provides full server-side symbolication with class names, methods, line numbers, and automatic grouping of similar crash reports. For iOS, Mac, and Android Applications! **What do you dislike about Microsoft Visual Studio App Center?** The prices were competitive, but I am looking for free. **Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Visual Studio App Center:** Apple makes it non-trivial to do testing on actual devices, this product makes it a little easier. **What problems is Microsoft Visual Studio App Center solving and how is that benefiting you?** We provide a ride sharing cordova app ### 10. Intuitive and useful internal app distribution tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 08, 2016 **What do you like best about Microsoft Visual Studio App Center?** Developer setup was a snap. Very easy to distribute new builds to our entire staff. Much more intuitive than other tools such as TestFlight. Easy to set up multiple builds for different production environments and staff receives notifications of updates via email. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Visual Studio App Center?** We've found little to dislike with this product - we are quite pleased with it. **What problems is Microsoft Visual Studio App Center solving and how is that benefiting you?** Allowed our medium-sized business to successfully dogfood an iOS app through rapid iteration in its early stages. Quickly collected crash reports from internal staff and relayed them to our developers for quick fixing. ### 11. Evaluated for integration on a mobile product **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 28, 2016 **What do you like best about Microsoft Visual Studio App Center?** Pretty much the easiest in all ways, integration, distribution and even crash log reporting. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Visual Studio App Center?** In general, cocoapods makes it mandatory to use the workspace on XCode. I would like to use the project file instead of workspace on XCode. May be integration with Carthage is much cleaner. **Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Visual Studio App Center:** Easy to integrate, simple to use and an elegant app !! **What problems is Microsoft Visual Studio App Center solving and how is that benefiting you?** Primarily app distribution and crash reporting. 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